Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

The Passion by Arnoul Greban (Paris, ca. 1450; 35,000 lines; four days) is probably the best-known French Passion play, often co ...

and the Temptation of Christ; Days 2 and 3, Christ’s public life; Days 4 and 5, the Passion proper; Day 6, the Resurrection; Day ...

Runnalls, Graham A., ed. Le mystère de la Passion Nostre Seigneur du manuscrit 1131 de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. Geneva: ...

PASTOURELLE/PASTORELA . Medieval lyric genre that developed in the 12th century in Occitan (pastorela), flourished during the 13 ...

average. Whereas most other farces are constructed around a single trick, the anonymous author of Pathelin has woven an intricat ...

Duby, Georges. Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, trans. Cynthia Postan. Columbia: University of South Carolin ...

Head, Thomas, and Richard Landes, eds. Essays on the Peace of God: The Church and the People in Eleventh Century France. Special ...

fluctuated between six and ten. After 1318, parial status lost its strict attachment to a major fief, and some peers secured par ...

cause of the counts of Toulouse, whose lands were invaded by the crusaders. In his religious poems, he expresses an orthodox bel ...

Rainier, Raimon V of Toulouse, Alphonso II of Aragon, and Boniface of Montferrat. It would appear that Peire made a collection o ...

the new monarchy would protect the Roman church, the pope used the occasion to name Pepin and his sons “patricians of the Romans ...

In Book 2, Gadifer and Perceforest each organizes his twelve best knights into teams to free the island from chaos and superstit ...

de Montreuil Continuation is intercalated between the Second Continuation and Manessier. Composed in the late 12th century, the ...

Perceval returns to the hermit uncle he had met in Chrétien’s romance, who gives him a lesson on repentence. He finally recovers ...

and the rest Bliocadran. The former is a rhymed “table of contents” to the Grail story; while the latter tells of the death of P ...

Périgueux, Saint-Front, plan. After Secret. Périgueux (Dordogne), Saint-Front. Photograph courtesy of Whitney S. Stoddard. was f ...

Architecturally significant are the domed churches, Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité and Saint-Front. The origin and chronology of this ...

82; Brussels, Bibl. Roy. 11145; Chantilly 626) and two fragments, as well as a 14th- century Welsh translation. Divided into ele ...

figure of the early 13th century. His achievements profoundly influenced the course of Western music. The music theorists Johann ...

PERPIGNAN . Founded in the 10th century, Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) became the capital of Majorca from 1276 to 1344; it was ...